On 3 March 2014 14:46, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 3/2/2014 4:50 PM, LizR wrote: > > I find Tegmark's metaphysical speculations interesting, because he is at > least trying to get his head around the big questions, like why is there > something rather than nothing? > > To quote the late Norm Levitt: "What is there? Everything! So what isn't > there? Nothing!" >
As Russell will tell you they may be one and the same. > > Or Frank Wilczek (Nobel prize 2004): "The reason that there is Something > rather than Nothing is that Nothing is unstable." > With all due respect to Wilczek, who I suspect you may be quoting out of context, that hasn't answered the question, has it? - The question being, where did the laws of physics come from that made nothing unstable? You may as well rope in Edgar to explain why it's logically impossible for there to be nothing because blah whatever. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
